A Catholic archbishop who resigned after breaking his vow of celibacy has sued RTÉ for defamation, alleging he was wrongly depicted as a paedophile in the 2011 Prime Time Investigates programme, ‘Mission to Prey’.

AIB Munster Club JFC: Glin (Limerick) 1-8 Kill (Waterford) 0-8

THEATRICAL stalwart Catherine Mahon-Buckley has surely earned the title of Mammy of Cork pantomime season now that she is directing her 20th seasonal show for the Everyman. Mahon-Buckley is directing Jack and the Beanstalk for the theatre, and says that every five years, a new generation emerges.

Michael Hilliard Mulcahy’s play, Beyond the Brooklyn Sky, deals with the generation that emigrated from Ireland in the 1980s and returned, some without having fulfilled their dreams.

The Courts Service has revealed RTE’s bill for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds' legal team was more than €150,000.

YET another Munster invasion of France beckons this weekend and with it, no doubt, another clutch of ‘planes, trains and automobiles’ tales from their legion of resourceful travelling fans.

CURRAGH handler John McConnell, whose horses are in fine shape, took his tally of winners for the year to 11 when Eurosmart Lady landed a touch in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Limerick yesterday.

A WOMAN hit by a Dublin Bus vehicle in which five people died when it mounted the footpath at Wellington Quay has begun a High Court action for damages. Three women and two men were killed in the accident.

CORK property developer Owen O’Callaghan’s appeal against the High Court’s rejection of his bid to prevent the Mahon tribunal’s further inquiring into or making any findings on allegations made against him by developer Tom Gilmartin will be heard within weeks the Supreme Court indicated yesterday.